Jim Price

President – RinkNet

This year is the 13th season that National Hockey League teams have been using RinkNet as their primary scouting database. The company has grown from just two clients in the beginning to a lineup that now includes 29 NHL clubs, 47 Canadian Hockey League clubs, 17 NCAA schools plus a number of other junior and European clubs. A total of over 2,100 managers, scouts and hockey administrators use RinkNet on a daily basis. The company has 22 employees working out of it’s headquarters in Guelph, Ontario.

The product includes schedules, player information and statistics across the literally hundreds of leagues that are scouted at both the professional and amateur levels. Scouts use the product to enter their own evaluations of each player, organize their travel schedules and even do their expenses. Managers can access material about players that they are looking at for their upcoming drafts as well as for free agent signings and trades. The product helps organize information and also analyze it through the use of formulas and algorithms. The company has added video and mobile devices to it’s product offering in recent years and are continuing to develop new and innovative products.

This season marks the 26th for Price in his career in the hockey industry working on a full time basis. Prior to founding RinkNet he worked as Director of Information for the Canadian Hockey League for 8 seasons and prior to that as Assistant General Manager for the Hamilton SteelHawks/Niagara Falls Thunder franchise in the Ontario Hockey League for four years. Price was named as one of the top 100 people of power and influence in hockey by The Hockey News.

Jim and his wife Gina have two boys, Robbie (7) and Ryan (4) and reside in Guelph, Ontario.